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Re: Is anyone going to the Wellington Archives at all?
« Reply #45 on: Monday 07 January 19 19:09 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Alan and Minniehaha for the background information.

The Jack ALDER who died in 1951 was from Huntly, a Slag Works Worker/Farmer.

The Kiwi Index has no mention of a Herbert ALDER.

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Were there any other mental hospitals in the Auckland region that he might have been admitted to?
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All the hospital names I quoted in #21 could have been used with regard to paitients gaining mental health assistance, since the advent of hospitals in Auckland. Some were the same campas just a different administration. Therefore an admittance ledger started and now saved under one filed name may in it's later [year] entries, contain info that would otherwise be catalogued differently, if entries were itemised.


If a study is made of the Alder surmane, it can be seen that there were several family groups scattered throughout NZ. One such family [Jack] was at Huntly.  At the start I quickly found a number of NZ registrations containing Adler and Herbert etc as Christian names and wondered
if there may have been a link to the family the research is about. However as two generations of this family were Ministers of religion in the UK, there could have been other reasons for an association through the Christian names of a child of later generations.


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Re: Is anyone going to the Wellington Archives at all?
« Reply #46 on: Monday 07 January 19 19:17 GMT (UK) »
RE Death Notice 1952.

If as it appears Herbert was a comitted health patient from 1917 until his death 1952, and his NOK were unaware of his existance. I doubt that any Executor would be publishing a death notice, BUT if assets still remained in his name they may have published a notice about claims upon, or disbursment.


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Re: Is anyone going to the Wellington Archives at all?
« Reply #47 on: Tuesday 08 January 19 00:25 GMT (UK) »
There were many newspaper notices but, anyway, the death cert has been received today.

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Re: Is anyone going to the Wellington Archives at all?
« Reply #48 on: Tuesday 08 January 19 00:33 GMT (UK) »
the death cert has been received today.

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Hi Deb,does it state the name of the institution?
All these names were what the institution was known by

Whau Lunatic Asylum (or: Lunatic Asylum at the Whau; later: Auckland Lunatic Asylum, Avondale Lunatic Asylum, Avondale Hospital, Auckland Mental Health Hospital, Oakley Hospital; Carrington Psychiatric Hospital; commonly Carrington/Oakley Hospital) was a psychiatric hospital on the Oakley Farm Estate in Point Chevalier, Auckland, New Zealand. Built in 1865 on the Great North Road, it was one of the largest asylums in the Colony.

The records at Archives could be under any of those names depending on their dates

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Re: Is anyone going to the Wellington Archives at all?
« Reply #49 on: Tuesday 08 January 19 00:59 GMT (UK) »
It's Kingseat in Papakura, Janette.
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Re: Is anyone going to the Wellington Archives at all?
« Reply #50 on: Tuesday 08 January 19 02:50 GMT (UK) »
Not sure that this is particularly helpful, but maybe?.......

http://archives.govt.nz/sites/default/files/mental_health_0.pdf


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